Use a proper service/daemon, not screen

[joeduffy]

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[chrsmith]

Hey @ellismg you kindly volunteered to do this last night. Let's get er' done this afternoon if you have time.

[joeduffy]

I actually wonder if, instead of this, we should just Dockerize the docs website. As I look at https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-service/blob/master/cmd/docs/DEVOPS.md, and see the manual apt-gets, etc., it screams out for this. I'm also about to add some steps due to our use of LFS, and I'd really prefer to just update a Dockerfile and redeploy than to SSH into the machine and perform manual steps.

[joeduffy]

@chrsmith I was just going through and closing 0.6.1 (since it was still open in a few repos), and ran across this work item. Did we fix the issue of using screen?

Also /cc: @mmdriley @ellismg as I know you were discussing daemonizing with these guys (though, honestly, I prefer Dockerizing by an order of magnitude compared to maintaining a stateful server).

[chrsmith]

I do not believe we got around to daemonizing this, so the bug should still be open.

As for "properly Dockerizing", this is why we didn't do that initially:

When we can host our docs publicly, we can just host this from a static S3 bucket. So no need to set up infrastructure. The only reason we need a backend for now is for restricting to our super-amazing private beta users.

So we punted on adding it to our CloudFormation since it would be a short-term need anyways. (And because we don't really need N-versions of our docs floating around, but having a "LTS" and "HEAD" branches of our library docs might make sense.)

FWIW, I was planning on tackling "technical debt in Pulumi websites" in M8.

[chrsmith]

Plan of Record
We'll do this via an init script today and set up Pingdom. Long-term plan is to move this to an S3 bucket when we have no longer have access restriction, so we'll never Dockerize and/or move into our official Pulumi stack.

[chrsmith]

• docs.pulumi.com is wired up to https://my.pingdom.com and will send a message to #ops in Slack, email/text Joe and myself.
• Add an init script to the instance so the docs binary gets launched on machine restart.

[mmdriley]

Fixed in https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-service/pull/193